We believe in free speech principles, right?

So naturally we,

Allow Myron Gaines to come with an invite from a student org

Have administration directly help in rolling out the red carpet for Ben Shapiro. (The president’s office reserved the venues)

Black ball Hasan Piker while maintaining plausible deniability (this is speculative but come on).

I’m not a fan of any of these people, but free speech without admin involvement, am I right?

Edit 2: I want to clarify that I am not sharing this to seek financial compensation. I simply wanted to create a memorial for Sunny and remind people living near major festivals to take extra care of their pets, especially those who are easily frightened or sensitive to noise.
If possible, I also hope people can prepare some basic emergency supplies and know what to do in an emergency, whether for their pets or themselves.
The reason I filed complaints was that I wanted to understand what exactly happened and receive a reasonable explanation. I also hope there can be better preventive measures in the future, such as sending advance notices to nearby residents about potential noise, vibrations, and traffic disruptions, so that people can better prepare and protect their families and pets.
I am not trying to blame anyone or ask for money. I just want Sunny to be remembered, and I hope that sharing his story might help prevent something similar from happening to another family.
I may be a little emotional at times because I’m still undergoing psychological therapy.

Today Is the Seventh Day Since I Lost My Baby Sunny — How the ACL Music Festival Took Away My Family, Health, and Academic Life

Today Is the Seventh Day Since I Lost My Baby Sunny — How the ACL Music Festival Took Away My Family, Health, and Academic Life

Today marks the seventh day since the passing of my family member, my child, Sunny.

In Chinese tradition, on the seventh day after a family member passes away, their soul returns home from the afterlife to visit their loved ones. I lit two candles to guide Sunny on his way home, and three sticks of incense, hoping that he would be filled with peace and happiness. I also prepared his favorite canned food, treats, and toys, hoping that he could eat his favorite food and play with his favorite toys one last time.

Over the past week, I have tried to file complaints with the City of Austin about the noise and traffic problems caused by the ACL Music Festival. However, they told me that they were sorry for my loss, but everything was in compliance with the regulations. They did not provide me with many details and then closed my complaint.

I am in so much pain. I have lost almost everything because of the noise from this music festival.

My cat Sunny was a purebred Maine Coon. He was a gift from my family to accompany me on my Ph.D. journey, and he was also my emotional support animal. We spent $3,300 bringing him home from LMCooNCat. He had no HCM genetic mutations or heart problems.

Because he became sick from the noise, I spent more than $400 taking him to the vet for injections and medication, but I still could not save his life.

At approximately 9:40 p.m. on October 9, as the music grew louder and louder, he suddenly went into cardiac arrest right in front of me due to extreme stress.

I could not get an Uber at all. I do not have a car, and it was also around the time when people were leaving the music festival. I missed the last chance to save his life.

All I could do was perform CPR on him for an entire hour. But I am not a professional, and I did not have a defibrillator (AED).

Later that night, I spent another $500 or more taking him to a pet cremation service because I simply could not bear to face his body.

When I went to the pet cremation service to pick up my child, I experienced severe hyperventilation and anxiety and was taken to the emergency room by ambulance. This was another devastating blow to my health and financial situation.

Even now, I am still frequently receiving emergency psychological counseling and crisis intervention.

I am a Ph.D. student. I originally had a conference submission deadline on October 15. The reason I left home at 8 a.m. and returned at 8 p.m. every day was that I was working so hard to meet this deadline.

I worked so hard that I neglected the dangers of the noise. Many of my friends complained to me about the noise from the ACL Music Festival and the vibrations it caused in UT housing's building. But I ignored these concerns again and again, even when my cat had already become sick because of it.

However, because my physical and mental condition completely collapsed, I missed the conference submission deadline and had to take an entire week off.

Afterward, I am going to leave my current living environment because I feel anxious every time when I pass by living room when Sunny passed away, and also afraid of
future music festivals. That will also cost me even more time, energy, and money.

This music festival has destroyed everything in my life. It took away a member of my family. It took away my physical and mental health. It destroyed my academic work and completely drained my savings.

I’m so stupid. I don’t really use social media at all, and I don’t even know how to make a post. It took me three tries to finally post this successfully.

some highlights

• New grade distributions are out
• Reduced Motion mode in settings to strip animations for faster performance.
• Daily course schedule refreshes so catalog info stays accurate.
• There's a cool uninstall page now
• And much more , which you can see in the changelog on utrp!
• Inline Header Editing: Double-click to edit calendar/sidebar titles directly without extra clicks.

Huge shoutout to the design, product, and dev teams for the teamwork and collaboration on this update!

Hey everyone! I see a post here every couple of months asking where to play poker or find other poker players at UT, so I wanted to put this out there:

Texas Poker Club is now officially a registered student org! We have weekly meetings covering poker fundamentals and strategy, and we also host games with no money involved. Meetings are free, with no buy-ins. If you’re a beginner or someone who’s always wanted to learn how to play poker, we are here for you. Come to a meeting and we’ll teach you the rules!

If you’re more experienced and just want a community of other poker players at UT, this is the place to find them. Whether you play cash games or tournaments, there are people to talk strategy and share hands with. We don’t host cash games ourselves.

We also run UT Austin’s competitive intercollegiate poker team, playing against other colleges across the country through the Intercollegiate Poker Association.

All of us here at Texas Poker Club love poker, and if you do too, we’d love to have you at our meetings, Thursdays at 6:30 PM. Rooms are announced in our Discord each week.

Discord and everything else: texaspokerclub.org

See you there!

Hi all,

A few Longhorn alumni and I (‘19, ‘23, ‘23) have been going out to fish spots around Lake Travis. Wanted to put a feeler out for a potential informal alumni fishing group.

If there’s any interest, feel free to shoot me an email at [jendrzeygunnar@gmail.com](mailto:jendrzeygunnar@gmail.com)

hi! i'm a rising junior looking for someone to a room with in a 2x2 at venue on guad with. i know it's kinda far, but it's cheaper than a lot of atrocious wampus rates rn...

as for me, i keep common areas quite clean (laundry, dishes, trash, all that stuff), i'm down to share things, i'd want to decorate the place and make it look cute, and i'm chill w/ drinking but would prefer no smoking! i will also have a car if you need to get off campus :)

dm/reply if you're interested!

People are started to get their big tickets revoked for using auto clickers. If you try to manually spam click, it’ll give you an error every 5 clicks or so and you have to wait for a cooldown. Even if you don’t get your ticket revoked for using an auto clicker, it won’t really work because of this. But it looks like this does make it easier to get tickets, I manually clicked about 20-30 times with the cooldown every 5 clicks and got a ticket within ten minutes

Hello Everyone! I have my upcoming midterm for micro with grooms on Thursday and I cannot deal with another bad grade cause my grade in that class is unfortunately bad already :/. Anyone from that class or has taken the class in the past share tips on how they can improve or what they did to get a good grade? Like what helps the most? Kahoots? Past exam questions for Each unit? Please share ur tip. Because, last time I reviewed the flashcards and I still got a 60....

What grade in the classes 402 and 406 constitutes an A, A-, or B? How can I maintain a 3.5 in these classes (on scholarship rn)?

What’s the political and social vibe at UT Austin? Is campus more liberal or conservative compared to the rest of Texas? Also, I’m curious about the experience of Indian students there and whether racism is much of an issue. Would love to hear from anyone who moved from California or another blue state.

has anyone gotten their big ticket revoked for using an auto clicker? how soon after the game was it and how long did you use the clicker for?

Hi! I’m going to Day 1(Friday) of COTA this year and I was wondering if anyone had a Mercedes hat or shirt I could borrow for the day for like $10 please?

Hi! I’m looking to test out of SPN 601D and was wondering if anyone had any resources or successfully took the exam and received credit for it. I took spanish several years in high school and have been on duolingo 😂. Would anyone have any tips or past exams or where I can find content/sample essay prompts they would have on the exam? The website below doesn’t answer all of it or should I email the department?

https://testingservices.utexas.edu/university-texas-spanish-exam-writing-exercise

RMP for Bardhan is terrible, everyone complaining about how hard it was, but I'm not sure if that's just selection bias or not.

On the other hand, Sagrilla has overall better RMP, but it's only 3 reviews.... and they're for other classes so I'm not sure whether or not it's his first time teaching the course and therefore no clue how he is.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

anyone going to the beabadoobee concert tomorrow, just hoping to hitch a ride w anyone i’m willing to contribute to gas… just don’t wanna uber to and from 🥲

I’m so stuck on discrete math I don’t understand what we are doing, and the psets are confusing me. I was wondering if y’all know any YouTube channels that do a good job of explaining the topics and doing complex examples

Hey guys is anyone returning their tickets for the UF/UT game for tmrw or know someone returning them? I haven’t been to a single game yet cuz my green man never moves so if you are pls lmk :))

I’ve been so overwhelmed and drained and ive been struggling to take care of myself. For the first time I’ve started skipping my classes, I even missed an in-class writing assignment that’s worth 25% of my grade. I emailed my professor saying I’ve been having some mental health issues and she’s letting me make it up but I’m embarrassed that I told her that bc I feel like I’m oversharing and I’m embarrassed I even missed the assignment in the first place. Does anyone else feel like this? I used to never have missing work and always be on top of everything but I don’t know what’s happening, also is mental health even a solid reason to be missing class I don’t know 😔 I feel guilty and disappointed in myself but I feel too tired and drained to do anything about it

Pleasssee I’ve been clicking away at this all day. Does anyone else get the “oops, there was an error processing your request” message after 5 clicks? It seems to go back to normal after a minute or so.

Today is the final day for tuition payments, but it’s still saying my fafsa hasn’t distributed yet??? Does anyone know why

Has anyone received details about the fall ring celebration and pickup yet? Their webpage says we’d get an email “early October.”